Hanging on to Christmas a little longer?

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We are. We love Christmas…it seems to build up and up and up…and then, it’s over.:crying: My dd built a gingerbread house last night…ha 😛 Everything is on sale–big time! So, we are still buying Christmas decorations. :o

We are going to watch Christmas movies tonight…we just don’t want to let Christmas go. We had a lot of company throughout the season come to stay with us, so now, our home is so quiet…I mean, we love spending time together as a family, of course–but it was so great to have a house full of people, noise, hanging out in the kitchen, and making the dining room come alive with different big dinners to celebrate.

Just miss Advent, and Christmas.:bighanky: You?
 
We are only a couple of days into the Christmas season… so by all means - continue to celebrate! We still play the Christmas music… I’m hoping to get those Christmas cookies made today and our tree will stay up for at least two more weeks. This is my favorite time… it’s all the things I LOVE about Christmas without the stress of shopping! Plus I just love these next few feasts we have to celebrate… Yea for the Holy Family!

Merry Christmas!
 
yellowbird said:
We are only a couple of days into the Christmas season… so by all means - continue to celebrate! We still play the Christmas music… I’m hoping to get those Christmas cookies made today and our tree will stay up for at least two more weeks. This is my favorite time… it’s all the things I LOVE about Christmas without the stress of shopping! Plus I just love these next few feasts we have to celebrate… Yea for the Holy Family!

Merry Christmas!
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Oh great–glad I’m not alone! Hi yellowbird.🙂 Hey, that is a good way to look at it–no more shopping with a deadline. 😃 Sadly, I’m sort of a procrastinator and save a lot of the shopping and wrapping until Christmas Eve, but in some ways, I like to savor Advent and not live at a mall all during that season.

My husband said that there is the 12 days of Christmas, so…we can still keep celebrating. My dd said that we should always have the Christmas spirit…since we are Catholics…in our hearts every day, throughout the year. 🙂 She is right. I guess what I miss is the large family gatherings. A new year’s resolution of mine is to make sure those gatherings are not just once a year, you know?

Enjoy your cookie baking, yellowbird! Merry Christmas!:heaven:
 
whatevergirl said:
We are. We love Christmas…it seems to build up and up and up…and then, it’s over.:crying: My dd built a gingerbread house last night…ha 😛 Everything is on sale–big time! So, we are still buying Christmas decorations. :o

We are going to watch Christmas movies tonight…we just don’t want to let Christmas go. …Just miss Advent, and Christmas.:bighanky: You?
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Advent ended and NOW it’s the Christmas season. Go ahead and celebrate. :dancing: Like Yellowbird and you, our tree stays up a couple more weeks. We still listen to Christmas music, watch movies, bake the remainder of the cookie dough, and enjoy the Christmas season.

I remember some old family friends who exchanged gifts on the Epiphany rather than Christmas day–they shopped for gifts during the after Christmas clearance sales. 😃 Tempting, very tempting…
 
gardenswithkids said:
Advent ended and NOW it’s the Christmas season. Go ahead and celebrate. :dancing: Like Yellowbird and you, our tree stays up a couple more weeks. We still listen to Christmas music, watch movies, bake the remainder of the cookie dough, and enjoy the Christmas season.

I remember some old family friends who exchanged gifts on the Epiphany rather than Christmas day–they shopped for gifts during the after Christmas clearance sales. 😃 Tempting, very tempting…
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ha! Whatta great idea!
Yay–happy to not be alone here. 👍 Thanks for posting, gardens. 🙂
 
I got so involved in building a dollhouse for one of my daughters that all the other craft things we were going to make kinda got put on the back burner. Now that the gift giving crunch is over (and the inlaws are headed home) we’ll have time to finish the gifts. Christmas is a season, not just one day, so we try to keep celebrating. We also have cookies to bake and maybe we’ll try our hands at gingerbread houses…
Merry Christmas Season, everyone! 🙂 (and Happy New Year, too)
 
We’re Catholics. It’s still Christmas for us. I can’t for the life of me understand why so many people think it’s better to celebrate for 1, maybe 2 days and then chuck the tree out with the trash and go back to normal life. 🤷

Enjoy your Catholic prerogative. Celebrate Christmas right up to the feast of the Epiphany.
 
Christmas extends to the next Sunday following Epiphany–the Feast of the Baptism of Jesus–thats 18 days.

Here’s my source:
catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/overviews/seasons/Christmas/Christmas_days.cfm

and here’s a calendar
catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/month.cfm?y=2009&m=1

LOTS of time to celebrate! 🙂 It’s secular culture that has “boxed” Christmas into one day–they leave Jesus as an infant in the manger until Easter (if they even remember Him then). Merry Christmas!
 
When our kids were younger, we did a small gift on Epiphany.

Keep celebrating 👍
 
Count me in as someone who is still enjoying Christmas. 😃 All my decorations are still up and I’m checking out the after Christmas sales to see if there is anything to add to them. 😃 I’m planning on baking cookies either today or tomorrow. I love that we get to keep celebrating Christmas for awhile! 😃
 
I feel very sorry for the folks who think it’s all over on Christmas day. They actually miss the entire Christmas season, and have little idea! I decided on our first Christmas after our first son was born that we would celebrate Epiphany and do our little family thing then. That way, the grandparents get Christmas, and I still get to do an event of my own at home. This year though, since second son is due on Epiphany, I’m only leaving the tree up through the Christmas octave. I need to get the decorations put away before I’m occupied with constant nursing and no sleep.

It kinda irks me that if I decide to leave up my decorations through the entire Christmas season, the neighbors will most likely think we’re being lazy about taking them down. 😦
 
I work retail, so sadly, come tomorrow, I have to plunge back out into an already Christmas-less world. But, I have Christ in my heart and our home is still decked out with boughs of holly and our two Christmas trees, plus, I’m browsing YouTube for all the Christmas specials I remember watching as a kid, so I’m all set.
 
There’s a church in our area that presents a traditional medieval Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival the weekend following New Year’s to celebrate Epiphany / Twelfthnight. This will be my fifth year to go. For some reason, it puts me more in the Christmas spirit than anything that leads up to Christmas. With the choirs and sing-alongs of medieval carols, the bell choir, the costumes and pageantry, the living creche, spectacular angels, Magi, Beefeaters, Lords and Ladies, et al, it’s an incredible spectacle and the ending turns everyone into absolute mush. My friends and I often take that opportunity to exchange gifts rather than rush it before Christmas.
 
Matrix_Refugee said:
**I work retail, so sadly, come tomorrow, I have to plunge back out into an already Christmas-less world. **But, I have Christ in my heart and our home is still decked out with boughs of holly and our two Christmas trees, plus, I’m browsing YouTube for all the Christmas specials I remember watching as a kid, so I’m all set.
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Blahh, K-mart already had Valentines stuff out! :rolleyes:
 
Christmastide is here
Break out the trees and beer
Be merry
And be cheery
Because God is near

Christ the King is born
In swaddling clothes, adorn
Give Him thanks
On mountains and banks
For He is our horn

See the signs of the Cross
He has come to save us
Angels sing
And Maji bring
Him gifts finer than gloss
 
Oh goodness! Christmas has just barely begun … so of course, it should still be celebrated. My tree doesn’t even go up until the 4th Sunday of Advent and stays up until Epiphany.

But yes, I do miss Advent. I absolutely love hearing O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.
 
Yesterday at Mass, just before giving the final blessing, Father mentioned that despite what popular culture would have us believe, we are NOW in the “Christmas Season” (this being the Christmas Octave) and thus NOW is the time to be singing Christmas songs … which we did … all the songs we sung yesterday were Christmas songs. 👍

So, on that note, Merry Christmas, whatevergirl! 😃

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We still sing Christmas songs at Mass during the Christmas season! It disheartened me the other day when my manager at work ordered all Christmas decorations to be taken down in our department - and she’s Catholic! I remind my fellow Catholics at work that we are NOW in the Christmas Season and they should continue to celebrate through the Epiphany!
 
I made my Christmas cookies today. I will keep the candles in the windows for the whole 12 Days of Christmas. We don’t take ANYTHING down until Jan. 6 and keep the nativities up until Feb. 2, Candlemas, just like at the Vatican. 😃

I will be putting stuff away well into February.
 
Thank you everyone! :bounce: This made me so happy to read this. I agree–that as Catholics, we are so blessed (maybe lucky? 🙂 ) to have such a longlasting Christmas season.

Thank you for the poem Eucharisted…so sweet. And Matrix, my heart goes out to you–I worked retail back in college, and the days following Christmas were tough–good luck, and God bless!

:blessyou: :grouphug:
 
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